21st January 2010

Spring lambs are starting to drop. I saw a black Romney (single) lamb in "T's" field today. She usually runs about a 100 head plus lambs. I ought to stop by and tell her I am back down in the States. Soon lambs will be everywhere.

In the morning at a local farm that I used to be in FFA with their kids with, I saw the beekeepers working hundreds of hives. I pulled up their secondary road for a minute as I wanted to take photos for a friend who keeps 4 hives in Wisconsin. I have never seen so many hives in one location before. Soon they will be putting them in different fields. Crocuses, daffodils and tulips are inches tall now.

Photos: Workers checking the hives in a winter bee yard (above).

Part of the bee yard (below). It is about 8 rows deep and is about as three times as long as you can see in the photo.

Maybe I will get bees again. I used to have 4 hives when I had my first farm in the States, but I think 1 will do it for my needs. Until I was driving by a newly planted clover field on the way to my new home and mentally hoped it was a Crimson clover field, I did not realize how much I missed seeing the red flowers and the white hives which are usually in the fields.